Wedding Party
“In friendship, we think we have chosen our peers.
In reality, a few years' difference in the dates of our births,
a few more miles between certain houses,
the choice of one university instead of another,
the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting;
any of these chances might have kept us apart.
But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances.
A secret master of ceremonies has been at work.
Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,'
can truly say to every group of Christian friends,
'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'
The friendship is not a reward for our
discriminating and good taste in finding one another.
It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
- C.S. Lewis -